Achi news desk-
A woman has been convicted of murdering a pregnant young girl and cutting open her stomach to expel the child.
According to media reports, Clarissa Figueroa, a 51-year-old woman in Chicago, killed a 19-year-old girl named Marilyn Ochoa Lopez in April 2019. On Tuesday, April 16, the woman accepted her crime.
The 51-year-old woman will now likely spend the rest of her life in prison. The woman’s daughter, Desiree Figueroa, also pleaded guilty in January to murder, for which she was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.
Desiree made a plea deal with prosecutors in exchange for testifying against her mother, while Clarissa initially refused to stand trial for the murder.
According to a report published by the Associated Press, Clarissa Figueroa’s son died of natural causes in 2018 after which she conceived the child.
She joined a Facebook group for expectant mothers, where she met 19-year-old Ochoa Lopez.
Figueroa called the girl, Ochoa Lopez, at home to give her baby clothes and allegedly told her daughter that he should kill a pregnant woman and take her baby.
When Ochoa Lopez went to Figueroa’s home on April 23, 2019, he carried out his plan by strangling the girl with a cord.
After that, the cruel woman called her daughter and with the help of a knife cut the girl’s stomach and took the baby out of her. She later called 911 to report that she had given birth to a baby who was not breathing.
Later, when the police investigated the suspicion, the whole thing was revealed and it took four years to solve the case and the woman stood her ground according to the court order.
